Packing.



I PATENTED JULY 18, 1 905. J. H. BRIGKBR.

I PACKING;

APPLICATION FILED 00'1.4, 1904.

No. 795,098. Patented Jul 18, 1905'.

UNTTED STATES PATENT EETEEJ JOHN H. BRICKER, OF PITTSBURG', PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO FRANK H. IVOOD, ()F PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

PACKING.

SPECIFICATION firming part of Letters Patent No. 795,058, ate July 1 3, 1905.

Application filed October 4, 1904:. Serial No. 227,119.

To all whom it y 0077/06???" sections as being madeout of hard rubber; o

Beitknown that I, J O'I'IN H. BRIGKER, a citibut the same may be made out of fibrous or zen of the United States of America, residing semimetallic material. The sectionsas desigat Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and nated by the reference-numerals 1 and 2 are 5 State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain each provided with a beveled face 4c, and the new and useful Improvements in Packing, of section 3 is of substantially a triangular 5.5 which the following is a specification, refershape in cross-section. By referring to Fig. ence being had therein to the accompanying 1 of the drawings the position each section drawings. assumes when assembled will be seen, and the IO This invention relates to certain new and triangular section 3 of the packing is adaptuseful improvements in packing, and more ed to engage the beveled faces of the sections particularly to packing for stufiing-boxes and 1 and 2, and in the form illustrated in Fig. 1 piston-rods; and the object of this invention I intend to use a fibrous or semimetallic mais to provide a packing which may be conterial 5 in connection with the sections just 5 structed of metal and fibrous material. described, this material being placed in on- Another object of this invention is to progagernent with the lower edges of the sections 6 5 vide a packing which will readily adjust itself 1 and 2, and around said material and said under pressure and will permit of a double sections I braid a fibrous material 6, which is expansion, and I have provided novel means preferably coated with graphite or the like 20 whereby the compensating parts will be held lubricant.

in position,'so also to prevent it from being In Fig. 3 of the drawings I have illustrated blown or forced out under pressure. a piece of my improved packing wherein the \Nith these and other objects in view, which fibrous or semimetallie material 5 is dispensed will be more readily apparent as the invenwith and the fibrous material 6 braided around 5 tion is further understood, the invention the sections 1, 2, and 3. The sections 1, 2,

finally consists in the novel features of conand 3 may be made of a yielding material or struction, combination, and arrangement of may beformedofmetahor they may beformed parts, which will be more fully described, and of an absorbent material, such as convolution hereinafter pointed out in the claims, and, reof a fibrous material. The fibrous material 30 ferring to the drawings accompanying this employed for braiding the sections 1, 2, and

application, like reference-numerals designate 3 together is preferably made of an absorbent 8 corresponding parts throughout the several material, such as hemp or its equivalent, for views, in which taking up and secreting oils or similar lubri- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a section cants. The material surrounding the sections 35 of my improved packing. Fig. 2 is a detail is coated with graphite or other lubricants,

perspective view of the different parts of my such as generally used in stufiing-boxes. improved packing disassembled. Fig." 3 is In Fig. 4 of the drawings I have illustrated a vertical sectional view of a packing conmy improved packing as applied in a stufiingstructed in accordance with my invention; and box through which a shaft or piston-rod passes,

4 Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view of a stufiingand where my improved packing is to be used box through which a shaft or pistonrod for this purpose it is preferably made in rings, passes, showing my improved packingmountwhich are adapted to surround the shaft or ed therein. piston-rod, and in placing the rings in the Reference now being had to the drawings stufiing-box I preferably place the same so 45 accompanying this application, the referencethat the triangular section 3 lies toward the numerals 1, 2, and 3 designate three sections gland of said stufiing-box. By the disposiof my improved packing, and these three section of the packing-rings within the stuffingtions will be first described. In the first two box when the gland is tightened the trianguiigures of the drawings 1 have illustrated these I lar sections 3 will be forced inwardly, expanding the sections 1 and 2 and causing the fibrous or lubricant material 6 to more closely adhere to the piston-rod or shaft which passes through the stuffing-box. When the triangular sections are forced inwardly, they form a wedge to separate the sections 1 and 2, and the sides of said sections will force outwardly upon the fibrous material (Sand form a perfect and non-leakable packing for said stuffing-box.

I wish it to be understood that I do not care to limit myself to the use of hard-rubber, fibrous, semimetallic, or metallic materials in constructing my improved packing, and I do not care to confine myself specifically to the precise construction and arrangement of parts herein described, and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, but may make such changes in the details of construction as will be permissible by the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. A packing comprisinga plurality of packing-rings, arranged side by side within the packing-box or gland, each ring being composed of three sections, two of which are of rectangular form and with one beveled edge, the beveled edges constituting, when the rectangular sections are joined,a V-shaped groove between their adjacent faces, the third section being of triangular form and fitting in said V-shaped groove, a covering of fibrous material, said rings being so arranged in the packing-box or gland that the fiat sides of the rectangular sections will face the inner wall of the gland and the surface of a rod passing therethrough.

2. In a packing, the combination of three sections of solid material, two of which are of rectangular form, each having one of its inner corners beveled off, a third triangular section fitting between the said beveled corners of said rectangular sections, a substantially rectangular braided section of fibrous material arranged adjacent said rectangular sections,

and a braided covering of fibrous material.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN H. BRICKER. Witnesses:

RosALIND M. PEITZ, M. A. ScI-IELL. 

